Edward D. Easton
Edward Denison Easton (* 10. April 1856 in Gloucester , Massachusetts ; † 30th April 1915 in Arcola , New Jersey ) was an American pioneer of talking machines industry and is considered the founder of the Columbia Phonograph Company, later the music label worldwide operations from Columbia Records emerged .
Life
Easton studied law in Washington DC and graduated from Georgetown University in 1889. In addition to his studies, he worked as a court reporter and began to be interested in the inventor Thomas Alva Edison's phonograph , which was to be introduced as a dictation machine at this time . With the founding of the American Graphophone Company (American Graphophone Co.) in 1887, Easton became the first general manager of the company which manufactured and offered for sale Graphophone for dictation purposes, developed by Charles Sumner Tainter , in Bridgeport , Connecticut . A year later, in 1888, he participated in the establishment of the Columbia Phonograph Company (Columbia Phonograph Co.) , which received exclusive rights to the sale of reel players and the recording of phonograph reels from the American Graphophone Company . Two years later, he helped organize the first meeting of the phonographic industry in the United States in 1890.
In 1894, after tensions between the Columbia Phonograph Company and the North American Phonograph Company and their final bankruptcy, Easton used his respective management positions - on the one hand at the Columbia Phonograph Company and on the other at the American Graphophone Company - both companies to the Columbia Phonograph Company General to amalgamate, which concentrated on the worldwide trade in phonographs and graphophones, later gramophones and their sound carriers.
Services
One of the essential accomplishments of Easton and his company, Columbia Phonograph Company, was to recognize the potential of musical recordings and act accordingly, while other societies were unsure of the direction in which this novel recording technology would develop. In addition, Easton succeeded in forming the Columbia Phonograph Company General into one of the world's leading companies in the production of drum players and record players.
literature
- Hoffmann, Frank W. & Ferstler, Howard: Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, Routledge, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-93835-8 .
- Peter Tschmuck: Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry , 2nd edition, Springer, Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-28429-8 .
Web links
- Edward D. Easton in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- The Music Trade Review, The Passing of Edward Denison Easton : International Arcade Museum (English, pdf) , accessed July 22, 2017.
- The Music Trade Review, Obituary of Edward Denison Easton : International Arcade Museum (English, pdf) , accessed July 22, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tim Brooks: Columbia Records in the 1890's: Founding the Record Industry. (PDF) ARSC Association for Recorded Sound Collections, accessed on July 22, 2017 (English).
- ^ Hoffmann, Frank W. & Ferstler, Howard: Easton, Edward Denison (10 APR 1856-30 APR 1914) . 2nd Edition. Routledge, London 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-93835-8 , pp. 346 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Easton, Edward D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Easton, Edward Denison (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pioneer of the speaking machine industry |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1856 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gloucester , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 30, 1915 |
| Place of death | Arcola , New Jersey |